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 Any advice?
+: Don't worry about making the "wrong" choice. If you ever change your mind, it is easy to move content from any wiki to any other wiki.
+: I recommend starting a wiki on *both* your top 2 options, and making prominent links back and forth between them.
+: That way, if one is ever temporarily offline, people can immediately use the other one.
+: In theory, http://www.wikimatrix.org/ ([[WikiMatrix]]) should quickly steer you to the right choice. Have you tried their [http://www.wikimatrix.org/wizard.php wiki choice wizard]? How can we improve it?
+: I ran through it myself with the criteria you give above, and it gives me [http://communitywiki.org/TooManyWikiEngines TooManyWikiEngines].
+: [tangent] Many newcomers to wiki think that WYSIWYG is absolutely necessary. However, [http://communitywiki.org/WysiwygIsntLinking other people] feel that communicating and connecting ideas is the top priority, and current WYSIWYG wiki implementations make that unnecessarily difficult -- other, simpler ways to edit are better.[/tangent] --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 15:52, 18 September 2008 (EDT)
 ==Wikipedia lessons==
 I was reading [http://valleywag.com/390598/is-jimmy-wales-getting-wikipedia-in-legal-trouble this article tonight] and was wondering what this might mean for people who run their own wikis regarding legal issues. Thoughts? --[[User:LauraHale|LauraHale]] 23:18, 14 May 2008 (EDT)